The debate over a planned Islamic community center several blocks from New York City's World Trade Center site is a "distraction," according to Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL).

Instead, the debate should shift in focus to an examination of the administration which "let it happen."

'It,' of course, being the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

The remark was made during a Friday appearance on MSNBC's The Ed Show with former liberal talk radio host Ed Schultz.

“If we are going to talk about 9/11, why don’t we talk about how not so much the people who died on 9/11 were disgraced by the possibility of an Islamic athletic center several blocks away; how about the fact that they were disgraced by a president who let it happen?" he asked. "Who went on vacation for the entire month of August after he was warned in writing that Osama bin Laden was actually finding targets in NYC and learning how to take these planes and do terrible things with them? The thing itself said ‘hijacking’ and they did nothing about it."

I caught this at approximately 12:55 eastern. Just before the break, Ed Schultz mentioned there is a Northwest Airlines pilot who has some interesting things to say about 9/11 and how the planes were "manipulated." Schultz did not give a specific time when this guy would be on, just that it would be by the end of the week. Keep your ears open, folks. In the meantime, we should do some homework on this Field McConnell guy to figure out if he is a nut and warn Ed Schultz preemptively if McConnell will only serve to tarnish 9/11 Truth. For some background information, see simuvac's blog.http://www.911blogger.com/node/6841